11-10-22
A PEDESTRIAN WAS STRUCK WHILE TRYING TO CROSS THE EVANGELINE THRUWAY IN LAFAYETTE. IT HAPPENED JUST AFTER SIX P-M YESTERDAY ON THE FRONTAGE ROAD IN THE TWO THOUSAND BLOCK OF EVANGELINE THRUWAY. THE MALE PEDESTRIAN WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. POLICE HAVE NOT RELEASED HIS IDENTITY OR GIVEN ANY OTHER DETAILS ON THE TRAGEDY.
FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF VELMA HENDRICKS IN A CRASH ON ELECTION DAY, THE TOWN OF MELVILLE IS LEFT WITHOUT A MAYOR. DANIELLE JOHNSON EXPLAINS HOW THE TOWN WILL MOVE FORWARD AFTER TUESDAY NIGHT’S ELECTIONS.
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IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA, SEVERAL INCUMBENT SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS WERE DEFEATED IN THEIR BIDS FOR REELECTION. IN CALCASIEU PARISH, DISTRICT SEVEN INCUMBENT MACK DELLAFOSSE WAS DEFEATED BY BETTY WASHINGTON, WHILE TONY BANNION TOPPED THE INCUMBENT FOR DISTRICT TEN, ALVIN DALE SMITH. IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH, THREE INCUMBENTS WERE DEFEATED FOR THE SCHOOL BOARD. THEY WERE DENISE PERRY, DONALD DEES AND JIMMY SEGURA. THERE WILL BE, OVERALL, SIX NEW BOARD MEMBERS IN THE NEW YEAR ON THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD.
ELEMENTARY STUDENTS IN LOUISANA WHO STRUGGLE WITH READING WILL BE ABLE TO GET SOME HELP. THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS LAUNCHING THE STEVE CARTER LITERACY TUTORING PROGRAM. UNDER THE PROGRAM, STUDENTS, WHO QUALIFY BASED ON THEIR READING SCORES, WILL HAVE ACCESS TO ONE THOUSAND DOLLAR VOUCHERS AND LITERACY TUTORS. PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH READING STRUGGLES CAN CHECK WITH THEIR SCHOOL SYSTEMS TO SEE IF THEY QUALIFY FOR THE TUTORING.
A LAFAYETTE MAN WAS SHOT IN HIS HOME ON NORTH PIERCE STREET AFTER TWO MASKED MEN BROKE IN. THE MOTHER OF THE MAN, RACHEL PORTALIS, TELLS KLFY TV ONE OF THE MEN WALKED STRAIGHT TO HER SON’S ROOM AND HE WAS SHOT WHILE THE TWO WERE FIGHTING. SHE SAYS HER GRANDCHILDREN WERE AT THE HOME BUT WERE NOT INJURED. PORTALIS SAYS THE BULLET CAME INCHES FROM HIS HEART AND HE IS NOW IN STABLE CONDITION AT THE HOSPITAL.
A VIGIL WAS HELD IN OPELOUSAS LAST NIGHT FOR A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD WHO DIED NOVEMBER SECOND. KENTRAVION GEORGE WAS SHOT AND KILLED ON NORTH MAIN STREET. FOUR SUSPECTS IN THE SHOOTING HAVE BEEN ARRESTED. DOZENS OF PEOPLE GATHERED OUTSIDE OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, MANY OF WHOM WERE TEENAGERS, AND BALLOONS WERE RELEASED AT THE END OF THE VIGIL.
A LAKE CHARLES MAN WAS ARRESTED TUESDAY ON SEVEN COUNTS OF FELONY SEXUAL BATTERY AND ONE COUNT OF MOLESTATION OF A JUVENILE. THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE RECEIVED A COMPLAINT ALLEGING THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD WILLAM C. SMITH COMMITTED SEXUAL BATTERY ON A CHILD. WHILE INVESTIGATING, DETECTIVES LEARNED OF AN APPARENT SECOND JUVENILE VICTIM AND FOUND EVIDENCE CORROBORATING THEIR STATEMENTS. DETECTIVES SPOKE TO SMITH TUESDAY AND BOOKED HIM INTO THE CALCASIEU CORRECTIONAL CENTER, WHERE HE’S BEING HELD ON A SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR BOND.
ABBEVILLE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT MONDAY IN THE SEVENTEEN HUNDRED BLOCK OF FRANK’S ALLEY. WHEN POLICE RESPONDED TO REPORTS OF A SHOOTING, THEY FOUND A PERSON LAYING IN A DRIVEWAY SUFFERING FROM MULTIPLE GUNSHOT WOUNDS. THE VICTIM WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AND WILL UNDERGO MULTIPLE SURGERIES OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. POLICE FOUND THAT A CAR, TRUCK, HOUSE AND MOBILE HOME WITHIN THREE HUNDRED FEET OF THE VICTIM HAD BEEN STRUCK BY STRAY BULLETS.
